2-715-347 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Crowds waving off troops leaving to fight in the First World, War, Britain, 1914, (1935). 'Only when it came to saying good-bye as the troop-train drew out did the grim reality that this might be a final parting loom large. Many left behind comforted themselves by saying the war would finish in six months'. From "The Silver Jubilee Book - The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures". [Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1935]